Hat-fastener.



No. 855,013.' PATENTED MAY 28, 1907. J. c. MORRISON.

'HAT FASTBNER.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 14, 1906.

JOHN C. MORRISON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAT-FASTEN ER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 28, 1907.

Application filed June 14, 1906. Serial No. 321,770.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. MORRISON, a citizenof the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented new and useful Improvements in Hat-Fasteners, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to hat fasteners of the same general character asthat disclosed in my co-pending application for patent, Serial Number219,624, filed December 20, 1905. A hat fastener such as that disclosedin said application comprises in its make-up a carrier or attachingmember and a pin guide extending outward from said carrier or attachingmember. The carrier or attaching member may be of any desirablecharacter such as a curved plate or a loop, While the pin guide consistspreferably of a coiled spring exterior to and extending outward from thecarrier or attaching member, the latter being suitably fastened within ahat.

A hat fastener involving my present invention embodies the severalfeatures outlined and in addition thereto has means for positivelypreventing the hair from becoming entangled in the coils of said guide.The means for accomplishing such result may be of any desirablecharacter, although I illustrate in the drawings certain advantageousembodiments for securing such result, said drawings being annexed heretoand forming a part of my specification. The means in question consistsin the present instance of a guard arranged over the spring guide, saidguard .serving to efiectually prevent the hair from dropping into thecoils of the springguide for the pin, in case such hair should becomelooped over the head of the pin. Should the hair become entangled in theguide it would cause considerable discomfort to the user of thefastener, as well as preventing for the time being operation of the pin;the guard remedies this difiiculty.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hatfastener involving my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional viewof the same, showing it in connection with a hat indicated partially bydotted lines. Fig. 3 is a perspectlve view of a modified form offastener.

Like characters refer to like parts throughout the several figures.

The hat fastener shown in detail in Figs. 1 and 2 comprises a carrier,or attaching member which may be of any desirable character.

The carrier shown in these two figures is composed of a longitudinallycurved plate 2 which may have on the exterior face barbs as 3 of anydesirable number-adapted to be embedded in the crown of the hat to aidin holding the carrier or plate 2 firmly in position. The barbs 3 arepunched preferably from the said carrier or late so as to form in thelatter perforations t ough which stitches may ass to augment the effectof the barbs 3. T e fastener shown in Figs. land 2 comprises two pins ofduplicate construction each designated by 4 and these pins extendrespectively through universally flexible guides 5. These guides 5 arere resented as consistin of coiled springs and t e inner ter- Ininal wirls are vertically disposed, up-

wardly extended and suitably attached to the exterior surface of thecarrier or plate 2. The guides therefore are exterior to the carrier andextend outward therefrom.

In Fig. 3 the carrier or plate is designated by 2 and it is not providedwith barbs as 3, but is simply perforated to be stitched into the hat,the stitches passing through the erforations. The carrier 2 is providedwit but a single coiled spring guide 5 and therefore with but one pin4..

The guards shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 respectively are of differentnature as will hereinafter appear. Referring particularly to Figs. 1 and2 wherein I have shown two guards each designated by 6, I would statethat these are the preferred forms of the device and they ordinarilyconsist of sheet metal. The two guards 6 are alike so that a detaileddescription of one will suffice for the other. The guard 6 is slightlygreater in length than the spring guide 5, and it has at one end aperforation 7 through which the vertically disposed portion of thecooperating spring guide 5 freely passes, this being a simple way ofconnecting the guide and guard. At the outer end of said uard 6 there isa downwardly extending ange 8 having a perforation coinciding with theopening through the guide 5 and through which the pin 4 freely passes.The guard, as will be understood, precludes all possibility of anystrands of hair falling into the spaces between the coils or whirls ofthe guide. I prefer to make the guard 6 curved and cross sectionally toagree with the curvature of the spring pin guide 5 so that the guardwill overlie the sides of the guide and prevent hair from working intothe spaces IIO between the coils of said guide from opposite sidesthereof. In Fig. 3 the guard 6 is constructed of Wire in the form of aloop. The plate 2 may if desired be provided with barbs like those shownon the plate 2.

What I claim is:

1. A hat fastener comprising a carrier, a

spring disposed exteriorly of the carrier and extending outwardlytherefrom, said spring constituting a pin guide, and meansextendinglzoutwardly from said carrier and for positively preventing thehair fromgentering into theispaces betweemthe coilsgof said spring.

2. A hat fastener comprising a carrier, a spring disposed externally ofthe carrier and extending outward therefrom and constituting a pinguide, and a guard forgthe spring connected with one of the inner coilsthereof and extendinggoutward from saidgcarrier.

3. A hat fastener comprising a carrier, a spring disposedexternallygofthe carrier,co1istituting a pin guide and having its inner terminal coilivertically disposed and attached to said carrier, and a guard for thespring extending thereover, having a perforation to receive said innerterminal coil.

4. A hat fastener comprising a carrier, a spring exterior to the carrierhaving its inner terminal coil vertically disposed and attaehed to saidcarrier, a pin movable through said spring, and a guard extending overthe spring, having a perforation at its inner end to receive said innerterminal coil, and a downwardly extending perforated llange, theperforation in said 'llange freely reeeivin g said pin.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosuhserihing witnesses.

JOHN C. MORRISON.

Witnesses:

CHARLES A. CORNELL, C. S. MITCHELL.

